Vacuum Decay Rate in D-dimensional Electroweak theories
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2026-01-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We present a systematic framework for calculating the vacuum decay rate in D-dimensional electroweak theories, providing a unified treatment of quantum fluctuations for scalar, fermion, and gauge boson fields via a combined WKB expansion and dimensional regularization. This method ensures rapid convergence even at large angular momenta. Application to a standard model effective field theory gives . In the finite-temperature, dimensionally reduced standard model effective field theory with , the values are at tree level and at two-loop order. The approach offers a general and efficient tool for analyzing vacuum stability and decay across dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.2601.13008,
title = {Vacuum Decay Rate in D-dimensional Electroweak theories},
author = {Jingwei Wang and Ligong Bian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13008},
year = {2026}
}
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18 pages, 4 figures